Emydura australis (Gray, 1841)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Gray, J. E. A catalogue of the species of reptiles and Amphibia hitherto described as inhabiting Australia, with a description of some new species from Western Australia. Appendix E, pp. 422-449. In: G. Grey, Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in Northwestern and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39, under the authority of Her Majesty’s Government.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Testudines
- family
- Chelidae
- genus
- Emydura
- species
- Emydura australis
Name
- Synonyms
- Hydraspis australis Gray In Grey, 1841
- Homonyms
- Emydura australis (Gray, 1841)
- Common names
- Australian Big-headed Side-Necked Turtle in Inglés
- Australian Big-headed Side-necked Turtle in Inglés
- Australian Big-headed Turtle in Inglés
- Australian bighead turtle in Inglés
Bibliographic References
- Iverson, John B., 1992: null. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. xiii + 363.
- Kehlmaier, Christian, Xiuwen Zhang, Arthur Georges, Patrick D. Campbell, Scott Thomson, et al., 2019: Mitogenomics of historical type specimens of Australasian turtles: clarification of taxonomic confusion and old mitochondrial introgression. Scientific Reports, vol. 9, no. 5841. 1-12.
- Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk, P. P., J. Iverson, A. Rhodin, H. Shaffer, and R. Bour], 2014: Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with maps, and Conservation Status. Chelonian Research Monographs, no. 5, v. 7. 329-479.